windbindd

[Richard Sharpe]

David W. Chapman Jr. wrote:

>Is there any reason winbindd is not supported on FreeBSD?  I'm just 
>curious of the hold ups, maybe I can get things rolling from the 
>FreeBSD team if there is anything we need to do?
>

This is an interesting question. Here at Panasas we have rolled our own 
support by communicating directly using TCP.

The issue, when I last looked at it, was a good nsswitch implementation.

I would be interested in keeping across this issue.

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